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Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means.
The term algal bloom is defined inconsistently depending on the scientific field and can range from a "minibloom" [when defined as?] of harmless algae to a large, harmful bloom event. [5] Since algae is a broad term including organisms of widely varying sizes, growth rates, and nutrient requirements, there is no officially recognized threshold ...
Pfiesteria is a genus of heterotrophic dinoflagellates that has been associated with harmful algal blooms and fish kills. Pfiesteria complex organisms (PCOs) were claimed to be responsible for large fish kills in the 1980s and 1990s on the coast of North Carolina and in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.
In 2019, a similar algal bloom in the Ohio River resulted in the cancelation of the swimming portion of Louisville’s 2019 IRONMAN race, due to concerns for athlete safety.
On the sand, unseen or ignored, bright red signs warned people to stay out of the water due to dangerous algae toxins. Some 70 miles away, farmer Bill Kellogg is trying to do something about the chronic algae blooms in America's southernmost Great Lake.
Blue-green algae, known as cyanobacteria or harmful algal blooms (HABs), has been confirmed at Devils Lake in Manitou Beach, a news release from the Lenawee County Health Department said.
Last year, Cayuga Lake had more harmful algal blooms than any other New York State body of water. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Heterosigma akashiwo is a species of microscopic algae of the class Raphidophyceae. [1] [2] It is a swimming marine alga that episodically forms toxic surface aggregations known as harmful algal bloom. The species name akashiwo is from the Japanese for "red tide". [1]